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KIFI (Idaho Falls, Idaho) 20 February 06 Python Still Missing
After almost two weeks, the pet python is still missing in an apartment building in Rexburg.
Pythons can live three to six months without food so it could be alive and dangerous somewhere.
We finally confronted the owner to see what they are doing to help find the snake.
“I’ve got tenants in here that are going to refuse to pay rent because they have a snake living in their building. We just need to get the thing caught,” said building owner Kevin Kennedy.
Chelsea Standford, the owner of this snake, might consider this python on the loose to be her baby, but everyone else can't believe it hasn't been caught yet.
"I want the thing out. I don't care whether it's dead or alive. Let’s do it sooner than later."
Kevin Kennedy, the owner of the building, says now is the time to start digging for the snake but he doesn't want to pay the bill. He says it's the owner of the snake's responsibility.
"If my maintenance guys are doing it, who's paying the bill? You can pay for your plumbers but what about my guys tearing in to the walls?
“We'll take care of the expenses,” Standford said.
You heard it. She said that they'd take care of the expenses that it will take to dig until they find the snake.
"We want the thing out. We have scared tenants. We've got scared business owners. It's not good for business. I don't want my tenants to move out. I don't want them to not pay rent. I need the thing to be gone,” Kennedy said.
But the problem still remains -- there's still no sign of the huge python.
“It could be anywhere in this 57,000 square foot building,” said Kennedy.
We decided to check out the basement because the boiler's heat could possibly attract the python.
We're down in this old building’s basement, to see if the snake is anywhere to be found. You'll see there are lots of nooks and crannies, especially this old coal shaft. The snake really could be anywhere.
Can you imagine living next door to the apartment where the snake got out? This tenant is from Zambia and says he and his wife are scared because coming from Zambia they know first hand just how dangerous pythons really are.
“The mangers told us it might be in the basement so that was comforting, but we still do freak out at night if someone touches the other one and if a blanket touches you,” said the resident.
Tearing up the walls and the floors to get the python out could begin as soon as Monday night.
Python Still Missing

KIFI (Idaho Falls, Idaho) 21 February 06 Python Found In Rexburg Apartment Building
The 8 1/2 foot python has been found in Rexburg. It was found under the apartment it escaped from.
The owner of the building hired a plumbing company to come in with special cable equipped with a camera on the end.
The 100 foot cable is able to move around the nooks and crannies in the walls and pipes.
The 8 1/2 foot python was found, its eyes glazed because it was hungry.
It was curled up in the ceiling above the shower in the apartment below the owner's place.
The people who lived in the apartment couldn't believe they had been showering with a python for the past two weeks.
They say they're happy to have it out.
Getting the snake out took efforts from police, animal control, plumbers and the owner of the snake and even a rat. They used the rat to lure the snake out from from the ceiling.
Everyone is excited to have the snake out of their building. The building owner says that some of the women in the building that refused to sleep there will now be able to come back and get a good night's sleep.
Luckily no one was injured and the snake is not injured either just a little hungry.
The snake is now in possession of animal control in Rexburg, they say they are taking good care of it and now looking for a new home for the snake instead of an apartment building.
Python Found In Rexburg Apartment Building